KDE: 'safely remove' does not safely remove

[Craig White]

On Mon, 2006-11-06 at 09:48 -0300, Marcelo Magno T. Sales wrote:
> Em Domingo 05 Novembro 2006 20:01, Paul Smith escreveu:
> > Dear All
> >
> > The option of "safely remove" for removing pen drives is not working
> > properly here. To safely remove my pen drive I have to use the command
> > line through the command 'umount /dev/sda1'. Any ideas how to repair
> > that?
> >
> 
> Do you wait for the pendrive icon vanishes from desktop or konqueror after 
> clicking "safely remove"? It may take some time to flush the pending data 
> write operations to the pendrive. It's safe to remove it only when the it's 
> icon disappear (i.e., when it's automatically unmounted).
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that was it...OP has stated that it wasn't being automatically mounted
but rather a forced mount via entry in fstab

Craig